Description: Department of Education Short Course N174

Jamaica 1971

IT Colbeck Village

Filmed at Colbeck near Old Harbour, Jamaica, July 1971 by John Mowatt

Establishing shot of country road; a white hut, group of youth and children throwing stones up at a tree;

New location: a shop front "George H, Beer Joint"; another sign "God is my Refuge". New wooden kiosk; a shot of a storage tank to side of road; shot of wooden shack; shot of a goat on the road and a while building. Shot of a donkey then a car driving down the lane. Shot of a woman walking with a donkey laden with goods and walking further up the lane.

Another shot of the lane with the donkey and a head shot young woman.

A young man posing for the camera doing a dance followed by a head shot of the same man. Head shot of a young girl posing for the camera; two men sitting at the side of the road. A CU of one of the men.

A young woman with carrying a box on her head. A shot of a sign in front of a church "The Church of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith Refuge Temple, Colbeck. Elder S.D. Memberhard, Pastor, Bishop D.S. Thomas, Island Overseer". Long shot of the church which appears under construction.

General shots of houses in the village. Shot of a woman riding a donkey along the road. Three smartly dressed young women walking along road towards the camera. One of the women holding a fruit in her hand [bread fruit].

Shot of a pig in a field; shot of another small village house and garden. Shot of fruit in a tree.

Shot of people sitting in the shade of a building with young children and women washing clothes in a bowl followed by a long shot of the same scene. A man and a woman walking down the road towards the camera and then walking away towards the woods and then came back towards the camera and then into a large house with two women standing in front of the house and children playing on a tree trunk and two youth standing looking out a window of the same house. A boy walks out of the house and towards the woods and a donkey. Close up of the donkey and the boy leading the donkey away. He ties the donkey up outside the house and loading up the donkey with paniers and goods including tin cans. He riding away down the road to the well to fill the tin cans with water, loading them onto the donkey and walking the donkey back up the lane into the sunset.